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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
From: Caleb Tennis <caleb () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2006-06-21 13:21:27
Message-ID: 200606210921.27405.caleb () gentoo ! org
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On Tuesday 20 June 2006 12:40, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with kde4 approaching and the new Qt-4 being in the tree we suddenly see
> the same problems that gtk had with the gtk2 flag again.
I think there's a lot of good thoughts surrounding how to handle this. There
are 2 categories of packages we need to concern ourselves with:
1) A package can optionally add support for Qt3 or Qt4 (such as dbus).
Solution: The qt flag represents the latest qt major version for the package.
The maintainer can either put in another flag for the older version (qt3?) or
provide a separate package (e.g. dbus-qt3 ).
2) A package requires either Qt3 or Qt4 (both not both?...such as
x11-libs/qwt-5).
Solution: Build against qt4. If you want to provide the same package for the
qt3 version, add a new package to portage I suppose.
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In the end, this is just merely suggestion. I think each maintainer should
come up with the best way to handle the situation unless someone is going to
GLEP this.
I think we should, however, do our best to avoid a situation where we have
some ugly combination of USE="qt -qt3" or USE="qt4 -qt qt3"...
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